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- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months… Karen Thompson Walker’s second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me. Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared,...
- Location(s): Bel Air, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In an upscale Bel Air property, two lovers are found dead in a swimming pool. The man is the playboy heir to a business empire, and the woman is his even wealthier married neighbour. An illicit affair is the...
- Location(s): Warsaw, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 2000s
Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break. She wants to direct...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s (post WW2)
AN ESQUIRE BEST BOOK OF SUMMER In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles. Lured by his cousin Marguerite’s invitation to the esteemed West Adams Heights, Charlie is immediately captivated by...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Outraged by her grandfather’s illicit affair with Empire Pictures’ latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own in McCarthy-era California. Backed by...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their secrets and lies place her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. Cassidy Foster is heartbroken,...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Hollywood, 1937 Hester Carlyle has no wish to look after the pampered offspring of the rich anymore, in spite of being a highly sought-after governess. But with her elderly father frail, and the roof of their rundown cottage in...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Named a “Best Book of 2016” by Refinery29 and a “Spring & Summer Book Pick” by * Redbook Magazine * Refinery29 * Coastal Living * Brit + Co * SheKnows * The Reading Room * FabFitFun * YourTango *...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.’ In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan...
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